Hi, I'm tring to use lock_guard, but I have some doubts... I have a method called OnDataReceived() which is called by another class through a signal. void ATDispatcher::OnDataReceived() { boost::lock_guard<boost::mutex> lock(_mut); // Data received from RS232 _device.GetData(_buffer); // .... CODE .... // unlock the mutex before notifications lock.~lock_guard(); signal_OnData(); } The first time it's called, it works fine. The second time the flow locks on the creation of the lock object. In the caller class I have solved this declaring the lock in this manner: boost::mutex::scoped_lock lock(_mutex); lock.unlock(); while (true) { //main loop lock.lock(); // saving data to vector _read_buffer.append(buf, rd); //Unlock the mutex lock.unlock(); signal_OnData(); } but here because there is the worker thread loop, while in the called class there is no loop. Thanks for suggestions. Daniele.